Poetic Devices ⭐✅ Flashcards
What is the mnuemonic you can use to help you analyse poetry?
SMILE
Structure
Message
Imagery
Language
Emotion
What is a rhyming couplet?
two consecutive lines that rhyme
What is caesura?
Punctuation in the middle of a line/ stanza/ sentece
What is a proper noun?
A person/ name
What is a concrete noun?
Anything you can engage with using the 5 senses
What is an abstract noun?
Anything you cannot engage with using the 5 senses
What is a conjuntion?
A word that connects two sentences
What is onomatopeia?
A word that sounds like what it is e.g. boom/ bang/ woosh
What is a plosive alliteration?
An alliteration using the 4 plosive constonants, b, p, g & k - words that cause air to be completely blocked by mouth movements
What is assonance?
Repition of vowel sounds
What is sibilance?
Alliteration using ‘s’ sounds
What is a sonnet?
A poem with a controlled rhyme scheme ending with a rhyming couplet that is 14 lines - sounds like heartbeat, generic love poem
What is enjambment?
When a sentence goes over multiple lines of poetry
What is a hyperbole?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
What is a denotation?
The literal meaning of a word
What is a connotation?
A word with multiple/ double meaning
What is an oxymoron?
Placing two opposite words together/ words that juxtapose eachother e.g. warm ice
What is an imperative?
The word at a beginning of a sentence to make it an instruction
What is a modal verb?
A degree of certainty e.g. must, should, could
What is a 3 line stanza called?
Tercet
What is a 4 line stanza called?
Quatrain
What is a 5 line stanza called?
Quintet
What is a 2 line stanza called?
Couplet
What is a 6 line stanza called?
Sestet
What is a 7 line stanza called?
Septet
What is a 8 line stanza called?
Octave
What is an end stop?
When a sentece ends at the end of a line
What is a poems structure if it has no rhyme scheme or strucutre?
Free verse
What is a poems structure if it has no rhyme scheme but does have a strucutre?
Blank verse
What is anaphora?
When multiple lines/ sentences start with the same word/ phrase
What is an ode?
A formal, ceremonious lyric poem that celebrates a person, event, thing or idea
What is an elegy?
A mourning/ death poem - a celebration of someones life
What is a ballad?
A narative song, steady rhyme strucure, telling a story
What is an epic?
A poem that tells a historic/ mythical event
